New Poll Finds Americans’ Trust in Media at Lowest Point in 50 Years
Trust for mass media among the American people is at its lowest point in 50 years, according to new polling from Gallup.
It’s very easy to see how this happened.
The vast majority of people in media act like they are nothing more than Democrat activists. They pushed anti-Trump lies like Russia collusion and the ‘fine people on both sides’ hoax for years and have never apologized.
People like CNN’s Jake Tapper covered up Biden’s obviously declining mental state for years and is now putting out a book on the topic, as if he had nothing to do with it.
Why should anyone trust these people?
Breitbart News reports:
Poll: Americans Trust in Mass Media ‘Lowest Point’ in over 50 Years
Americans’ trust in the mass media has hit the “lowest point” in more than 50 years, a recent Gallup survey revealed.
Gallup showcased the sentiments Americans have held for the last several decades in relation to how much they trust the mass media.
Shockingly, most, 68 percent, trusted the mass media either a great deal or fair amount in 1972, ticking up to 69 percent in 1974. It hit an all-time high of 72 percent in 1976.
Fast forward, and in the year 2000, trust in the mass media fell to 51 percent before dropping to 44 percent in 2004. From then on, trust has teetered back and forth but on an overall downward slope, descending to 32 percent in 2016 — notably, the year of the first presidential election with President Trump and twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Trust ticked back up to 45 percent in 2018, but it has continually descended since then, reaching 40 percent in 2020, 36 percent in 2021, 34 percent in 2022, 32 percent in 2023, and 31 percent in 2024 — former President Biden’s last year in office.
This didn’t happen overnight and it wasn’t an accident. The media did this to themselves. Take a look at the chart below:
GALLUP: Americans’ trust in the mass media is at its lowest point in more than five decades. pic.twitter.com/EBwH7h3Nd2
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) February 27, 2025
It’s difficult to see how they come back from this. Networks would need to do massive overhauls on policy and staff before the American people would even consider changing their minds.
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